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Photographic Quotes

Photographic Quotes

Quotes

Some Photographic Quotes to Ponder

Many thanks to Nick Wright for compiling the list

  • You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
  • Ansel Adams
  • A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
  • Annie Leibovitz
  • Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.
  • Peter Adams
  • I don’t trust words. I trust pictures.
  • Gilles Peress
  • It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.
  • Alfred Eisenstaedt
  • Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.
  • Diane Arbus
  • If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.
  • Robert Capa
  • Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.
  • Marc Riboud
  • Your first 1,000 photographs are your worst.
  • Henri Cartier-Bresson
  • The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.
  • Andy Warhol
  • Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
  • Dorothea Lange
  • There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
  • Ansel Adams
  • Photography helps people to see.
  • Berenice Abbott
  • What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
  • Karl Lagerfeld
  • When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.
  • Alfred Eisenstaedt

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